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| Full name | Silmo Mocuba |
|---|---|
| Ground | Pillip miibre stadium Mocuba, Mozambique |
| Capacity | 5.000 |
| League | Mocambola3 |
| 2006 | 14 |
Silmo Mocuba, usually known simply as Silmo Mocuba, is a traditional football (soccer) club based in Mocuba, Mozambique.
The club plays their home matches at Silmo Mocuba Stadium, which has a maximum capacity of 5,000 people. [1]
Modes of transport in Mozambique include rail, road, water, and air. There are rail links serving principal cities and connecting the country with Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. There are over 30,000km of roads, but much of the network is unpaved.
Maputo, officially named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital and most populous city of Mozambique. The city is named after chief Maputsu I of the Tembe clan, a subgroup of the Tsonga people. Located near the southern end of the country, it is positioned within 120 km of the Eswatini and South Africa borders. The city has a population of 1,088,449 distributed over a land area of 347.69 km2. The Maputo metropolitan area includes the neighbouring city of Matola, and has a total population of 2,717,437. Maputo is a port city, with an economy centered on commerce. It is also noted for its vibrant cultural scene and distinctive, eclectic architecture.
Zambezia is the second most-populous province of Mozambique, located in the central coastal region south-west of Nampula Province and north-east of Sofala Province. It has a population of 5,11 million. The provincial capital is Quelimane on the Bons Sinais River.
Mbombela is a city in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province. Located on the Crocodile River, Mbombela lies about 110 km (68 mi) by road west of the Mozambique border, 330 km (210 mi) east of Johannesburg and about 82 km (51 mi) north of the Eswatini border. Mbombela was one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The provinces of Mozambique are divided into 128 districts. The districts are listed below, by province:
Mocuba is a city and seat of Mocuba District of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. It is located on the Licungo River.
Clube de Desportos do Maxaquene, usually known simply as Maxaquene, is a sports club based in Maputo, Mozambique. The club is nicknamed Maxaca. Currently besides football (soccer) there are two indoor sports namely basketball and handball. In such sports Maxaquene is only the club with the most national titles after independence. Maxaquene won its first post-independence title in football, the Taça de Moçambique, in 1978. Prior to Mozambique's independence from Portugal, Maxaquene were known as Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques or simply Sporting de Lourenço Marques. Under this name, the legendary Eusébio played for the club.
Clube Ferroviário de Nampula is a Mozambican football club based in Nampula. They play in the top division in Mozambican football, Moçambola. Their home stadium is Estádio do Nampula. From 1993 to 2002, Filipe Nhussi, the current President of Mozambique, served as president of the club.
Filipe Samuel Magaia was a Mozambican politician, guerrilla leader and Secretary of Defense for the Mozambican FRELIMO organisation during the Mozambican War of Independence. After a number of years fighting, Magaia was assassinated by a Frelimo soldier in the employ of the Portuguese.
Mocuba District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. The main town is Mocuba.
Ile District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. Ile is bordered by Gurué and Alta Molócue to the north, Mulevala to the east, Mocuba to the south, and Lugela and Namarroi to the west. While Portuguese is the official language of Mozambique, the most commonly spoken language in Ile is the Bantu language, eLomwe. Subsistence agriculture sustains a large portion of the Ile population with crops such as cassava, rice and corn. These cereal crops are supplemented with small-scale farms of legumes, sweet potato, peanut, greens, tomato, onion, garlic, and more. Commercial agricultural crops include tea and eucalyptus. Available fruits include orange, banana, mango, papaya, coconut, lemon and lime. Ile is home to many granite domes and other bornhardts.
Lugela District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. It covers 6110 km² with 133.439 inhabitants in 2005. Its seat is the town of Lugela.
Morrumbala District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. The town of Morrumbala is the district headquarters.
Railway stations in Mozambique include:
Namacurra is a small town in central Mozambique.
The history of rail transport in Mozambique began in the latter years of the nineteenth century.
The RENAMO insurgency was a guerrilla campaign by militants of the RENAMO party and one its splinter factions in Mozambique. The insurgency is widely considered to be an aftershock of the Mozambican Civil War; it resulted in renewed tensions between RENAMO and Mozambique's ruling FRELIMO coalition over charges of state corruption and the disputed results of 2014 general elections.
Mocuba Solar Power Station, is an operational 40 megawatt solar power plant in Mozambique. The public–private partnership project, sells the energy produced to the national electric utility, Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), under a 25-year power purchase agreement.
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